By the way, if anyone tried my Be There desktop wallpaper application (https://be-there.cam) and had problems with it quitting unexpectedly, my apologies. I caught a couple of problems where Windows sometimes does things in an unexpected order - so it was rock stable for me and my test users but seemed to quit consistently with an error for some people. I've fixed the problems I know about. There's a new version now, 1.0.1.42, which has almost 2000 new cameras, so it's worth giving it a try. I really love having a live scene from Tignes, Avoriaz or Matterhorn Glacier Paradise as my desktop wallpaper.

@nbt, Point taken about Sainte Foy. I felt Tignes-Val d'Isere and Paradiski (Les Arcs-La Plagne) each deserved their own separate camera cluster. Most people spend a holiday visiting, and therefore want to see all the cameras for, one or the other of those, not both. This meant that as a small resort with only 4 cams, I didn't want to put Sainte Foy in a Snow Obsession cluster all on its own (what's the point? all the cams are on one page of the Sainte Foy website anyway). So I knowingly put it in the Aosta cluster with some other somewhat nearby resorts. I'm not sure if I added the other 3 cameras since your comment, but there are 4 cams for Sainte Foy on there now. Point also taken about overlapping sets in the data model. This is on my to-do list for the Windows desktop application which shares the data (https://be-there.cam) so that users can choose "just mountains and snow" or "just France" or "just cities" for their desktop wallpaper, without these having to be mutually exclusive groups. A bit of re-engineering required though, and some additional manual/AI tagging of 4600+ cameras.

@Snow&skifan, I've just put Puy St Vincent / Écrins / Serre Chevalier live: https://snow.obsession.cam/briancon . One of the cams is a live 360 viewer which I have not seen before, although I had to clear cookies before the 360 viewer would work.

@amh15, Love what you’ve done. Brilliant site. Hope you can benefit from all the work somehow! I benefit from the nice feedback! Anyone wanting to support the work is welcome to either submit or post snow.obsession.cam links to anywhere Google might see them (it's really hard getting Google to finish indexing the site), and if you're on Windows, Please check out [url=https://be-there.cam]Be There, my desktop application that gives you these cams on your desktop wallpaper - it's free, but the best features are lightly paid. :D

@thecramps, I have put some Swedish and Norwegian resorts up - Åre and the other Skistar ones plus a few I already had in my system. I'm afraid the Skistar cameras are not great... this is a bit of a pragmatic selection I might add the one Riksgransen youtube feed that works, and Rauland has a bunch of video cameras that should be easy to integrate. Geilo looks like an obvious omission, very "mid" cameras but looks doable, again, if I can figure out where the cameras are. If anyone wants to submit accurate lat/lon pairs (based on openskimap) for their fave uncovered cams, they'll get added quicker. :sH:

@Legend., I have put some [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/sierranevada]Sierra Nevada cams up. The main Feratel video cams were easy to do, but they also have a lot of "hotspot" cams (which I think are specific angles/snaps from the same handful of expensive pan/tilt/zoom cameras). Those just provide a jpeg, so I had to build a little viewer for those, but that seems to work OK now. 26 webcams in all. Not totally sure whether I got all the map positions right, but the appeal of trying to geoguess the locations starts to wane after 26 cameras. :lol:

@thecramps, I have put some Swedish and Norwegian resorts up - Åre and the other Skistar ones plus a few I already had in my system. I'm afraid the Skistar cameras are not great. [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/norway]Norway: https://snow.obsession.cam/norway [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/sweden]Sweden: https://snow.obsession.cam/sweden It's snowing in [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/norway/10140]Hemsedal (Norway) at the moment. I only get to snowboard for one or two weeks a year, and have not had the chance to explore the Nordic ski world, so this is a bit of a pragmatic selection (what was easy to do if I was doing Åre). Always happy to add others, but what usually turns out to be a ton of work is figuring out the map positions of all the cameras. In this case I also had to do a surprising amount of work to get the cams live because there's no nice Iframeable wrapper for a each camera, and the latest image URL changes in a non predictable way each time the image updates. Just about every other ski webcam either gives you a fixed url either for that camera (for an iframe, with controls etc.) or for the jpg. A fun mini project though.

@thecramps, having had a look, I reckon I can get the Åre cams into the system in the next few days. I can do it the same way as Sierra Nevada. Looks like there are 10 cams there and I have another four or five in other Swedish resorts about to come into my database (Stöten i Sälen, Tänndalen, Björkliden, Kabdalis). Might be a case to do all of Sweden in one for now. Shouldn't take too long.

@rdk, thanks, and noted re the countries. I'll see what I can do. Several areas are multi-country though. But you can type a country name into the search box, and it should filter correctly. I'll take out that dead Grainau cam on the next data update, probably when I add Sierra Nevada in the next 24h.

@Legend., @amh15, What about the Sierra Nevada mountains in sunny Spain? Hi Legend, appreciate the suggestion. I have Sierra Nevada in my system and they those cams were briefly on the site, but to be honest the presentation was a mess due to the way some of those cameras work. Some of them are nice Feratel cameras that work great in an iframe, but there are only 4 of those. The others seem to be a direct link to a JPEG like this: [url=https://recursos.sierranevada.es/_extras/fotos_camaras/pradollano/snap_c1.jpg]https://recursos.sierranevada.es/_extras/fotos_camaras/pradollano/snap_c1.jpg. I might need to make a little wrapper for the JPEG so that it can be autosized, zoomed and panned, otherwise it will load zoomed in and look pretty bad. I'll look into it, it was one of those "to do" items already in the back of my mind.

@amh15, Good work. Would be great if you could add some northern European cams too. I'll give it a go. I don't have great numbers of Nordic ones at the moment. Did you have anything specific in mind?

Nice implementation. Here are some more: https://www.haute-maurienne-vanoise.com/webcams/ I've put the Maurienne resorts live: Le Grand Domaine Valmorel Saint François Longchamp Aussois Val Cenis Valfréjus Valloire Galibier Thabor Valmeinier Lanslebourg-Mont Cenis Les Karellis Albiez La Norma Pralognan-la-Vanoise Pralognan doesn't really belong there, but I don't have a better home for it.

Nice implementation. Here are some more: https://www.haute-maurienne-vanoise.com/webcams/ Thanks for the request! I have most of those cams in my database, I think. I'll try and switch that on in the next couple of days. It'll be called "Maurienne" and will have the other Maurienne valley resorts as well.

Nice idea! I could easily lose myself for a few hours in this sort of thing - I like watching the TV channels you sometimes get in resort hotels with webcams rotating around the country, normally accompanied by some jolly accordion music Are you looking to add a few more resorts (e.g. Zermatt/Cervinia) and maybe others in the French/Swiss Alps? The site actually works ok on smart TVs! I check it often at the weekend. You should check out my desktop Be There app if you like the ambient aspect of it. At some point I might add YouTube streams to obsession.cam, but I suspect these are not very stable. Re Zermatt/Cervinia, it's there already. You can search for those resorts or even lift name on the homepage. That cluster is called Aosta. Regarding others, I have most of them in my Be There database so I could probably add them. Try searching, but if there are specific ones I haven't switched on for obsession.cam, let me know what you'd like to see added.

I like the map option for flicking between the cams. Glad you liked the map. OpenStreetMap shows lifts, although they aren't that clear. Maybe one day I'll be able to integrate OpenSkiMap. that map is so much better. If you have a favourite location with multiple cameras at the same lift station (within about 100m), there's a little button at the bottom that toggles between those cameras, since you can't very easily do that on the map.

Hey everyone, I've been working on a website that combines all the webcams from across each big resort area onto a single viewer. The site is here: [url=https://snow.obsession.cam]snow.obsession.cam. The worst example of the need for this is Portes du Soleil. I currently have [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil]56 webcams for that area; the Portes du Soleil site makes you hunt through 12 sub pages and doesn't have them all, and the Avoriaz site has only 8 of their 12 working webcams. Yes, I know, there are many other sites like Bergfex that cache or have links to all the cams for an area. This site is intended as a much more convenient viewer that lets you click between the direct feeds from all the camera providers. There's also a map, and links into OpenSkiMap.com. I shared some early versions on a different thread here, but someone suggested a new post here would be worthwhile. So look, this site is a homebrew. On desktop it's pretty good, but it's not perfect. If you rotate your phone sideways, it should now work OK on both iPhone and Android. For me anyway, it's a MUCH better way of clicking through the different cameras. The focus so far is on the really good quality cameras. Some areas might have a few cams missing (particularly if these are poor quality or weird one-offs). I can add these on request. I'm happy to get feedback, but please be nice, and remember that this is a one-man free project. So far there are about 1300 cameras in 38 resort clusters, and right now it's Alps and Pyrenees only. Most of them are meant to be "the places you might go on a single trip" or a single ski pass area. They could be broken out differently if anyone thinks I've committed some sort of travesty there. Also if anyone like me is a nut for these webcams and wants them as a live Windows wallpaper that updates every 10-20 mins, check out my other project, [url=https://be-there.cam]Be There. It has a lot more cameras, including beaches and cities. Enjoy!

For those wanting to follow the webcams in the Dolomites, I have hacked a small site together that integrates all* webcams from a large ski area into a single viewer. I added Dolomiti Superski over the last few days, with 148 webcams and a map: https://snow.obsession.cam/dolomiti-ss . Works OK on Android as well (in landscape). Suggestions for improvements welcome. * The focus is on the really nice quality modern cameras - I might not have older / low-res cameras where resorts have these. Feel free to submit missing cams via the site. This is a great idea and must have taken some work but not sure if I am doing something wrong but impossible to view / navigate on an iPhone either landscape or portrait. {IMG60804_23089_right} Update - I have just made some changes that SHOULD mean that it now works in landscape on iOS and Android (I don't have iOS to test and the online test sites seem useless). It's not worth investing a lot of effort improving portrait given the shape of these webcam images and given that desktop is the main target. There's a fullscreen button, but this probably does nothing iOS. I'd be interested to hear if that change helped anyone.

@amh15, why not put a separate post in The Piste about this, as I think it’s not just Dolomites? You’d get a lot more feedback. Thanks for the suggestion - trying to post respectfully since I have not been on snowheads much for a few years, until recently. I will post something on The Piste in the next day or two. Just having a go at improving mobile behaviour.

For those wanting to follow the webcams in the Dolomites, I have hacked a small site together that integrates all* webcams from a large ski area into a single viewer. I added Dolomiti Superski over the last few days, with 148 webcams and a map: https://snow.obsession.cam/dolomiti-ss . Works OK on Android as well (in landscape). Suggestions for improvements welcome. * The focus is on the really nice quality modern cameras - I might not have older / low-res cameras where resorts have these. Feel free to submit missing cams via the site. This is a great idea and must have taken some work but not sure if I am doing something wrong but impossible to view / navigate on an iPhone either landscape or portrait. {IMG60804_23089_right} Thanks for the feedback! The way I deal with making it navigatable on mobile is to go full screen when you stab one of the links. Unfortunately apple mobile browsers don't support this. If you have Chrome, it should work. Here's how it should look in landscape: https://snow.obsession.cam/assets/example-screenshot.png Alternatively, you could try sharing the site to your phone home screen, where it will look like an app. That might open it a bit more full screen. The mobile usage is a bit of an afterthought and I find the paraphernalia onscreen in the viewing area on the right tend to get in the way a LOT. It might be possible for me to zoom it out a bit on mobile, I'll look into that if there's interest - a superficial experiment just now suggested that this will require some experimentation.

I haven't been to Kitzbuhel for 20 years or so, and I'm not very clear on how the connection between Kitz and Ski Welt works. Is it a connection you can easily use to ski the whole area or is it more of a "do this for the challenge" type of connection requiring a long day with risks of not making it back? And is this something that has been gradually improving over time? seems like there was a new connection in 2008 and an announced lift pass in 2021. But there are also articles saying a proper connection will never happen. As I recall, in Kitzbuhel the norm is already to use ski buses to reach the slopes.

@Chris_n, any input from you on this development - my OH was idly looking at webcams this morning and saw that there is a new magic carpet at the top of the gondola in Niederau. It seems to have sprung up quickly. Opens up that area for a bit of nursery slope teaching when the snow is poor at the base - and sunnier. Those tube magic carpets are springing up everywhere. I was watching the webcam somewhere else - Morzine I think before they changed the webcam - and you could watch it get built in a very few weeks. I recently added Niederau as part of the Zillertal section of my webcam viewer site, for anyone wanting to quickly check out multiple webcams in the area. I also try to make it clear which lift each camera is near. https://snow.obsession.cam/zillertal

For those wanting to follow the webcams in the Dolomites, I have hacked a small site together that integrates all* webcams from a large ski area into a single viewer. I added Dolomiti Superski over the last few days, with 148 webcams and a map: https://snow.obsession.cam/dolomiti-ss . Works OK on Android as well (in landscape). Suggestions for improvements welcome. * The focus is on the really nice quality modern cameras - I might not have older / low-res cameras where resorts have these. Feel free to submit missing cams via the site.

I'm watching this remotely on the webcams, but there are some bonkers auroras visible over the French alps right now. If you missed it, you can rewind the webcams to about 23:15 French time on 19th Jan 2026. Here are some links: Avoriaz - Grand Conche = https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil/2180 Morzine - top of Pleney - https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil/596 Tignes - Top of Toviere - https://snow.obsession.cam/tignes-vdi/2950 Verbier - Savoleyres - https://snow.obsession.cam/4valleys/3022 3 Valleys - Orelle - https://snow.obsession.cam/3valleys/28

@amh15, Well done on webcam links very useful No worries, I was hoping to add a few of the other big resort areas! There's some classification work to do though.

I have just had a look at the Arpette web cam and do not recognise where it is - what has happened to the Ours lift for example. That's a good spot. I just checked the cam history and it was relocated on 28 November. The location is now here: https://openskimap.org/?markers=%5B%5B6.81018317%2C45.570859%5D%5D#17.47/45.570931/6.810309/25.1/60 I've updated [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/paradiski/517]my site.

Thanks for help so far! . There don't appear to be night busses, is that right? Last time I was there, a year and a half ago, the latest buses were the A to Prodains, and they only run up until the 9pm last gondola, and even then not super reliably. I wish they would coordinate that better, I always felt at risk of getting stranded in Morzine if the bus didn't show. Your current timetable seems essentially the same.

If you're watching the Tignes / Val d'Isère webcams, I recently hacked this together: https://snow.obsession.cam/tignes-vdi . It has [I think] all the Tignes and Val d'Isère cams together for easy viewing, with a map and elevations. I hope to maintain it - currently 21ish cameras. Let me know if I missed any.

Has anyone been following Google's AI work on weather? After the pretty incredible AI stuff that they (particularly Deepmind) have done over the last few years, my expectation that this will improve forecasting accuracy. Supposedly some of this is already built into Google Weather, but they don't appear to offer a fancy weather site - you have to hack something together with their API. If anyone is aware of sites using the new Google models, I'd be interested to see them.

We are hoping to get away for a week on the 13th December and are struggling on where to choose. We’ve had a week in Livigno this last year and loved it. But would like to try somewhere with a shorter transfer time this time. By the end of the week our teen boys and our age 10 daughter were confidently skiing down all blues including Motolino. I can do a blue but I don’t enjoy it and am ideally looking for somewhere I can try and build my confidence. Greens and blues that aren’t at the end of red runs. My husband snowboards and is confident as he’s been many times before. I’m aware that is pretty early in the season and we also don’t need a huge ski area. ... Any help would be greatly appreciated! So perhaps this is a bit late for you given that you asked a week ago, but no-one's mentioned Avoriaz, where I will be that week. Now I'll caveat this by saying that my experiences there have been mostly in March/April, when it'll be sunnier, but I will say this for it: - short transfer - 1h45 from Geneva - has already opened for the season for weekends, officially opens on 13th - famously one of the best resorts for families: great pool, fun horse taxis, lots of learner areas. It has bowling as well. - everything is ski-in-ski-out (no vehicles in resort - although at night, the taxis are caterpillar tracked rather than horses) - although the elevations are not enormous (up to ~2200m), it is usually claimed that they get the most snow of anywhere in France. - Avoriaz itself is a mid-sized ski area; the Portes du Soleil is very big - although going on 13th December, not all of the Portes Du Soleil connections will be open - probably just parts of Chatel and maybe some of Morzine. Full PdS is 20 December, so if you can use their left luggage system and do a seventh day on the snow on the Saturday, I'd really recommend this. Saturdays are quieter and the connection to Switzerland is a lovely area. - The resort setting is kind of mad - it's like a bizarre wooden castle perched on top of a cliff. I love it - although some won't. You get a lot of [url=https://www.skaping.com/avoriaz/pistes?archives=MTc2NDI1OTgwMA-YQ&zoom=LTAuMDM5MjY-MC4xMjgwNQ-MS4wMzkyNg-MC44NjAwNg]beautiful cloud inversion sunsets - this link is to 27 November. Also [url=https://www.skaping.com/avoriaz/pistes?archives=MTc2MzgyNzgwMA-YQ&zoom=MA-MC4xNjA2NA-MQ-MC44MzkzNg]22 Nov is you're into that. - Lots of intermediate and easy runs - Lots of self catering available that week. The best place to stay is within a short walk of the Festival area. - What are the downsides? Adult night life is apparently a bit weak (not tried it). The restaurant selection is a bit limited. I tend to go down to Morzine when we want a restaurant night out - gondola and bus are free, there's an amazing ski charity shop down there, a really good coffee shop, and better restaurants/bars. But I still recommend staying in Avoriaz because it's such a great resort base. It's somewhere I don't choose every single year, but I always long to get back to.

I recently hacked this together for the webcams side of this question: [url=https://snow.obsession.cam]snow.obsession.cam. It tries to bring together all the webcams for a connected resort area with a map, so you can click between them easily. It has Chamonix/Mont Blanc, 3 Valleys, Tignes/VdI and Portes du Soleil at the moment. Very much a hobby project but works quite well.

Has anyone seen evidence of specific early opening plans for Morzine? My group will be in Avoriaz 13-20 Dec, but I was thinking it would be nice to use the PdS pass and actually make it over to Morzine. The site talks about partial preopening, but what does that mean I wonder? just magic carpets and lessons at the top of Pleney? The snow looks so good for the time of year. The Avoriaz [url=https://www.calameo.com/avoriaz/read/002827892c28e6ead090d]opening plans say that (in principle) the Super-Morzine gondola will be open on the other side of the Morzine valley, as well as Seraussaix. Chatel are now saying "partial opening of the Linga / Pré la Joux areas and connection to Avoriaz" that week. The prior weekend (6-7 Dec) they will have opened "Pierre Longue, Rochassons, La Chaux des Rosées and Cornebois and Queysets" so one assumes that at least those plus either Linga or the Stade drag from the 13th.

@amh15, While it seems to work well, I wonder about whether it crosses lines of legality re intellectual property. Probably worth looking at this for Les Arcs (and similar for other resorts): https://en.lesarcs.com/legal-notice Thanks for the comment. I don't think I have used the Les Arcs site in fact, but I take your point. I think my response would be that technically Snow Obsession is just presenting the official, publicly visible camera sites (webcam-hd.com, skaping.com et al) in a window, the same way your web browser does. If necessary it could be trivially altered to literally open the original camera site in a completely new window rather than show it in an iframe; then it effectively becomes a catalogue of links

Lots to see on the webcams this morning The Paradiski ones I always come back to for the view are Grande Rochette and Live 3000. For those watching the webcams, I hacked this site together over the last few days: https://snow.obsession.cam/paradiski . It should have all the cameras from Les Arcs and La Plagne in one place. The objective is to make the webcams easily browsable. There's also a map, for those wanting to check conditions near a particular point. [Polite] feedback invited. :sH:

There's at least one missing from your page, the Champoussin one from the previous link, direct link here. https://pds-ch.roundshot.com/champoussin/#/ Haven't checked them all, just noticed that one wasn't on your page. Funnily enough I spotted that this morning. Fixed about an hour ago! :D

@amh15, Quick note - worth checking if all the cameras are active ones, as, for example, the camera at the Amara apartments in Avoriaz hasn't worked for a while now, so that's showing pictures from 2024. I like it though thanks. Yeah, some of the cams are seasonal. I normally have a rule that anything dead for a year gets removed. That one's just passed a year. I live in hope that it'll get fixed because that's actually a nice view, and I'm staying there in 2.5 weeks. Sometimes they fix them if you email to ask for it. I'll try and email. My database has almost 3000 cameras now, so it's not really possible to stay on top of them manually. For my main project (be-there.cam) I should be able to crowdsource this eventually. Even Avoriaz.com features a dead camera in Chatel, when they have a new one that works! I'll try and report those two...

Doesn't work so well on my phone I've just made a few changes that make it work well on my Android phone. You'll need to go to landscape. One change (for everyone?) that some people might find obnoxious is that it now goes full screen each time you click a webcam. This makes it work way better on Android and I personally like it on desktop. I'd provide a button/toggle to allow you to turn that off (on?), but I'm not sure where to put it. Feedback welcome. Apparently iphones don't support fullscreen mode, so if that's you, you might need to scroll the RHS a little. [url=https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil]https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil.

Thanks for sharing, that's a great collection. Doesn't work so well on my phone, but I've bookmarked it and will enjoy later on my pc. I'll freely admit, it's a hack and a work in progress and that front page breaks it a bit on phones. But if you rotate your phone to landscape mode and select your first camera, you should be able to scroll a little bit and get it so that it works perfectly on your phone with the logo at the top, the caption visible at the bottom, all cameras reachable by scrolling, map visible and working. I'll see if I can improve that.

to you have some recommendations for accommodation in Avoriaz? i am looking for the April Week (4th till 11th April) and since my wife will probably not ski , i want something better than the usual small studios. The hotels are too expensive so i am searching for something probably self catered. Assuming you're still looking, I've used the official Avoriaz booking site 3 times now, very successfully. The prices seem good. Go to [url=https://reservation.avoriaz.com]reservation.avoriaz.com. In your case you could search for 2 adults for the week you want but add the following filters: - 1 or 2 bedrooms - I would suggest picking the buildings Alpage 1, Alpage 2 and Sosna just because I've stayed in these and they're in pretty good locations. But you could try everywhere and that'll probably help you get a better price. - With the list I'm looking at now, I personally would exclude everything below €1700. But some of the cheaper ones might also suit you. I like these for example: - https://reservation.avoriaz.com/quartier-dromonts/appartement/3-pieces-sosna-sn0031pg.html - Sosna is just off the Boulevard des Skieurs and a short walk from the main shops. - https://reservation.avoriaz.com/quartier-crozats/appartement/3-pieces-alpages-1-al514.html - these Alpages properties are just above the main shops, linked by escalator. - https://reservation.avoriaz.com/quartier-crozats/appartement/2-pieces-cabine-alpages-1-al0906pg.html - https://reservation.avoriaz.com/quartier-crozats/appartement/3-pieces-alpages-1-al0505pg.html When they say "cabine" it means you have a bunk bedroom that's too small to be called a bedroom and has no window. They don't generally include it in the bedroom count. Happy hunting!

All the Les Gets Webcams Swiss side webcams here https://www.regiondentsdumidi.ch/en/webcams-28835/ I have just hacked this together:[url=https://snow.obsession.cam/portesdusoleil]Snow Obsession. It's a rudimentary microsite which has - I think - all the cameras for Portes du Soleil, and a map. I make it 56 webcams. I've only done it for Portes du Soleil so far but I can, probably will, do others (I have the data). That new Morzine Pleney camera is unbelievably better than the old one, it's actually pretty at night. There are some new Chatel and Les Gets cameras too.

Can someone out there please get me excited about snow conditions? If they are terrible, feel free to lie. Are you watching the [url=https://www.skaping.com/morzine/office-de-tourisme]Morzine tourist office webcam? It's relatively rare to see quite so much snow there at village level.